News corrections

Laura Secord’s father was Thomas Ingersoll.

•A June 4 article about a fundraising campaign for the three sons of Katherine Newman, who was stabbed to death in her Oakville townhouse in January, mistakenly said Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is continuing to look into the death of her estranged husband, Kyle Newman, who was shot dead by police in the parking lot of a Halton Regional police station. In fact, SIU director Ian Scott concluded in April that there are no reasonable grounds to charge the two Halton police officers in regards to Kyle Newman’s death.

• Laura Secord’s father was Thomas Ingersoll. A June 3 Books column about a new biography of the Canadian heroine misstated his given name.

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